DOES MAGNETIC-RESONANCE-IMAGING BELONG TO PHYSICIANS OR PHYSICISTS

Magnetic Resonance Imaging, proposed in 1973, has been developed very rapidly, mostly as a medical diagnosis technique, during the ten last years. It now allows applications such as fast imaging in less than one second, visualization of blood vessles, localized measurement of physical and chemical parameters on living systems. Now these applications spread out of the biological field and physicists use it to the study of hydrodynamics, materials, and more generally systems where a solid phase interacts with water.